Landscape sketches.

 Sketchbook studies made from Sherwood Forest, Clumber Park, Oxton, and Newstead Abbey. All using Faber-Castell Pitt pens.

All text, pros, photos, poetry & artwork, copyright Ian Gordon Craig.

Clumber Park experimental.

 

 

Top: I started by cutting up a road map showing the directions to Clumber Park from my house. Nine sections. Then painted over it quite freely.

Below: Following the same nine sections rule, then placing objects we' taken there.

Video can be seen on THIS LINK.

All text, pros, poetry & artwork, copyright Ian Gordon Craig.

The white heat has gone from the iron.

Sat on the Grass. (poem).

 

Like Winston and Julia Underneath the tree,

That wasn't her, And it wasn't me.

 

Currently reading Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned: “The white heat has gone from the iron and the glow from the coal”. This month's sketchbook diary reflected that mood:

 

In spite of the art award, in spite of being exhibited, I'm actually bored with painting now. I need something new. Is it too late to change my career options?

Below: Went to Skegness on my own for my annual day trip. Didn't stay very long.

 

 

Below: Sketching on Robin Hood’s Hill:

Below: Clumber Park:

 

 

All text, pros, poetry & artwork, copyright Ian Gordon Craig.

Sketchbook Summer.

 

 

Although very disappointed to find that access to Thoresby Lake has now been fenced off, this has been the summer of the sketchbook, involving several visits to other favourite locations in which to laze, chat and sketch in the sun: Clumber Park, King John Palace, a Papplewick pub, and of course good old Skegness.

All artwork & text copyright Ian G Craig.

Clumber Park sunset.

 

 

Clumber Park, New Year’s Eve. Stood watching the final sunset of 2009 beside Cumber Park Bridge, with my "Kid Sister" and her two girls, having eaten lunch at Thoresby Courtyard.

The Dukeries has a way of putting everything in perspective and me back in focus.

All artwork & text copyright ian gordon craig